Truth Nation Podcast

Netflix dropped a three part documentary last week with some spicy allegations. In a scenario only fathomable in Los Angeles, it’s the story of 7M Talent Management, the Shekinah Church, and several TikTok dance content creators who collectively have millions of followers. Are the young performers being swindled out of most of their earnings? Is the promise of divine salvation being used to coerce...

On this weeks’ episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss the 1988 documentary film, “The Thin Blue Line,” which chronicles the wrongful conviction of Randal Dale Adams, for the 1976 murder of Dallas Police Officer Robert Wood. How was a man convicted of capital murder with no physical eviden...

On Episode 21 of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss how corporate deception and a broken regulatory process led to two airline crashes and a multitude of quality control issues. To remain competitive with commercial airline builder Airbus, Boeing instituted extreme cost cutting measures, impleme...

In Episode 20 of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner take a look back at the June 12,1994 murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, and the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson. How was Simpson acquitted in the face of overwhelming forensic evidence? Was it a poorly conceived prosecution strategy? Criminologist...

Last week in the US Congress, the bipartisan Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party released a report titled, “The CCPs Role in the Fentanyl Crisis.” On episode 19 of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner break down the report. Are you wonder...

On Episode 18 of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss the, “Kids Online Safety Act,” (S 1409) and Florida’s, “Online Protections for Minors,” (HB 3). With social media platforms posing dangers to children like never before, has the time finally come for government intervention? What is KOSA and wh...

On this episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner, discus, “Quiet on the Set,” the four-part documentary released in March of this year, chronicling the backstage environment at the Nickelodeon Network in the late 90s and early 2000s. Did the shows push inappropriate and edgy adult themes in teenage...

On this weeks’ episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner, welcome guest Joey Esposito. Joey was a 32-year criminal prosecutor in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office and rose through the ranks to the position of Chief Deputy, the highest non-elected position in the office. From prosecut...

On August 10, 1991, investigative Journalist Danny Casolaro was found dead in room 517 of the Sheraton Hotel, in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The death was quickly ruled a suicide and the body embalmed. More than 32 years later, there remain serious questions about his death. Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner on this week’s...

On Christmas Eve 2002, Scott Peterson reported his wife, Laci Peterson, missing.  She was 27 years old and eight months pregnant.  In April 2023, Laci's body was discovered and a short time later, Scott Peterson was charged with her murder.  Scott was convicted, and eventually sentenced to life in prison.  Twenty plus years later, the Los Angeles Innocence Project filed an appe...

On this episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss two of the most significant digital intrusions into our private lives.  The hosts breakdown smartphone apps and how they continuously track and transmit your physical location so the data can be packaged, analyzed and sold.  Is owne...

On this weeks’ episode of the Truth Nation Podcast, retired ATF Deputy Assistant Director, former NYC Homicide Detective and current Author, Pete Forcelli joins the show to discuss his distinguished career in law enforcement, the terrifying realities of ATF Operation Fast and Furious, his role as a Whistleblower and his commitment to always doing what’s right, regardless of the personal cost.&nbsp...

A home invasion by armed men, followed by a kidnapping and a rape.  Imagine you’re the victim of a serial predator, but the police refuse to do their job and instead treat you like a criminal.  This is exactly what happened to Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn on March 23, 2015.  Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and retired DEA Special Agent in Ch...

In January 2024, six people were murdered in a remote part of San Bernardino County, California.   Four of the bodies were burned.  Days later, the San Bernardino County Sheriff said the murders were related to the black-market marijuana trade.  In 2020, there was a seven-person homicide at an unlicensed marijuana cultivation site in Riverside County, California.  When Cal...

The current National Debt is over $34 trillion.  That’s about a quarter-million dollars for each tax paying American.  A former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is on record saying the national debt has become perhaps our top national security threat.   Is the United States Government spending responsibly?  Is it the right time to provide $25,000 in grants to surfers in Co...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress made $4.68 trillion in bailout funding available to the American people via 44 different federal agencies.  A total of approximately $4.3 trillion was ultimately expended.  What government programs ran well? Did the Covid-aid follow those who had real needs or was the American taxpayer sold out by our elites? How did criminals and fraudsters...

In Episode 7 of the Truth Nation Podcast, Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner dive into the topic of Privatized Policing. What is Privatized Policing, and why is it becoming increasingly popular? Did the defund police movement bring us to a place where those with financial means use privatized policing to protect their communitie...

In October 2022, a group of families who lost children to fentanyl sold over Snapchat filed a lawsuit against the company, in Los Angeles County Superior Court. According to the legal filings, several of the plaintiffs had met with Snapchat executives in April of 2021. During that meeting the plaintiffs allege Snapchat executives told them the company was immunized from civil liability by Section...

In this weeks’ episode, Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garett and Retired DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner discuss two of today's most polarizing terms: “The War on Drugs,” and “Harm Reduction.” Have we tasked law enforcement with making societal changes well beyond their scope? When we say the War on Drugs is a failure, what is the measuring stick? Have we also fought a losin...

In December 2022, a week before Christmas when few were paying attention, and in the midst of the greatest drug crisis this country has ever known, Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States released a memo titled, "Additional Department Policies Regarding Charging, Pleas and Sentencing in Drug Cases." In this memo, he instructed prosecutors to do everything short of lying to avoid...

Whether it’s drug prosecutions, officer involved shootings, traffic stops or the murder case close rate, there has been a growing voice claiming American law enforcement is systemically racist and needs to be, “reimagined.” Retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and Retired DEA Chief Bill Bodner look at the studies, breakdown the numbers, and call on their over 60 years of combined l...

Crime of the Century. The root cause of todays’ fentanyl crisis. Was it corporate greed, naive politicians and government officials who lacked ethics or was it the Mexican drug cartels? Learn who is really to blame for today’s fentanyl crisis.

Did Minneapolis Police Department training and fentanyl play a greater role in the death of George Floyd then we were initially led to believe? Join retired California Highway Patrol Chief Mark Garrett and I on the Truth Nation Podcast as we discuss “The Fall of Minneapolis,” a documentary about the death of George Floyd, subsequent civil unrest and the trial of Derek Chauvin.